JesseAldridge

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   by JesseAldridge 18y ago

   lol. That would look pretty rude if you hadn't read the parent.
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   by JesseAldridge 18y ago

   I've been using SpiderOak ( http://spideroak.com ) to backup my code daily. Upload to their server. Nice simple gui interface. And it's free for < 2GB. And it works for Linux (unlike DropBox ;)
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   by JesseAldridge 18y ago

   Elephant sounds interesting. More info here: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/elephant/elephant.html
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   by JesseAldridge 18y ago

   "Look, if you don't wanna do school... just get really good at something. If you're better than anybody else at something you will always be in demand." - Dad
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   by JesseAldridge 18y ago

   Reading stuff like this makes me never ever want to run a publicly traded company.
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   by JesseAldridge 19y ago

   I'm not so sure about this. Working long hours for a small period doesn't seem to me like it would change your progress by an order of magnitude. If you build something great, does it really matter whether it takes a few extra days?
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   by JesseAldridge 19y ago

   You know wxPython has a widget that can render html. It's not full featured, but I was pretty amazed by it. There's definitely a lot of potential there...
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   by JesseAldridge 19y ago

   I think the problem is not so much that Linux is designed by geeks ignorant to the plight of the common person, but just that software is hard to create and maintain, especially software as big and complex as an operating system. The bigges
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   by JesseAldridge 19y ago

   I really like Tomboy. It's super simple and has a lot of great features.
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    When things are going well, Sinatra: "... But through it all, when there was doubt, / I ate it up, and spit it out. / I faced it all / And I stood tall / And did it my way. / ... For what is a man, what has he got / If not himself, then he
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    Not working for me. Ubuntu 8.04. Firefox 3 beta 5. The interface works, but the song doesn't play.
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    I think writing is more about teaching others than helping yourself. pg can afford to write because he's made his fortune. Simple notes to yourself should be sufficient for generating and refining ideas.
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    "The idea behind both of these new emerging (and currently illiquid) markets is to provide a place for private equity investors to trade securities with each other. The companies remain private, do not have to file with the SEC, and do not
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    I put a couple of my routine utility files onto github in order to experiment with open source. I'd appreciate any feedback. I'm completely new to open source and git and also fairly new to Python, so you'll have to forgive any noobish fum
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    Python Data Utils(github.com)

    2 points by JesseAldridge 19y ago|1 comments
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    On my to-do someday list is a site for recording and organizing debates. Arguments would appear as boxes of text, organized into a tree structure. Opposing arguments could be added as children to a parent node. Arguments could be filtere
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    Take a daily multivitamin. It really helps. You get sick much less often, and when you do it's much less debilitating.
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    Ask YC: Money, power, freedom, and open source.

    6 points by JesseAldridge 19y ago|5 comments
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    Ubuntu + Python + Scite atm
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    The website is http://www.e-texteditor.com/ . I haven't tried it.
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    I know pg says you need co-founders, but I have a feeling that partnering with a stranger will hurt your chances of success more than it will help. I remember Jessica saying a major cause of death in startups was founder disputes (link:
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    Great post indeed. Also, APL is some crazy shit. I found this quote (from its wikipedia page) interesting: "Advocates of APL also claim that they are far more productive with APL than with more conventional computer languages, and that work
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    by JesseAldridge 19y ago

    Augh, all that teasing and no meat. I want to know specifically why the author thought Python was better than Lisp.